Energy shield recharge

From the part 2 of the balance manifesto it seems GGG are really buffing Energy shield recharge from passives to base increase but how much do you think it makes difference for the ES characters?

Isnt energy shield recharge speed distant third from ES leech and ES recovery (like Brush with death)?

I'm not sure if many are actually using passive points to pick new ES recharge nodes from the passive tree.

Likely not much, but also it's likely those ES recharge stats will show up on passives that also have some ES itself on them, so you'll wind up taking them anyway. On gear you'll most likely see it as a wasted affix.

I'm skeptical that people are going to switch to relying on ES recharge much. Most likely ES leech, regen, ES on block (which somehow escaped the block nerfs lolwut?!) will continue to be the standard forms of ES sustain.

However there were other bigger changes for ES chars to celebrate. It seems you'll end up with more ES than before now. But also more fundamentally hybrid ES builds (ES + Armor, ES + Evasion, ES + Block, etc.) are better than ever.

Shield recharge was the go-to for high end trapper builds(all high end builds are low life).

Those recover only % es per trap and vaal discipline(which is not any good against large hits) and have no sustain so recharge is the go-to to not be completely screwed.

The change is not large enough to actually make difference tho...
One could even argue the ring change(which was main source of es recharge rate for many builds) is actual nerf to overall recharge... but that can be said only with full tree avaible.
also people that think the boost to hybrid bases and base stats will be really great... do not forget all auras get nerf and the reservation is going to be huge issue. So things like aspect of spider which is million times better than some armor on hybrid shield will be overall nerf to survival of such characters.

I wonder how well gravens secret will pair with:

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New Keystone Passive Skill called Divine Shield: Percentage of Total Physical Damage prevented from Hits Recently is Regenerated as Energy Shield per second. Cannot Recover Energy Shield to above Armour. We're still deciding on the specific value.

Edit:
With memory vault being destroyed maybe power of purpose keystone will be a thing now.

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Andrius319 wrote:

I wonder how well gravens secret will pair with:

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New Keystone Passive Skill called Divine Shield: Percentage of Total Physical Damage prevented from Hits Recently is Regenerated as Energy Shield per second. Cannot Recover Energy Shield to above Armour. We're still deciding on the specific value.

Edit:
With memory vault being destroyed maybe power of purpose keystone will be a thing now.

I think that the HUGE buff to armor over all will more than compensate for the nerf to Memory Vault helm.
The over 2500 flat armor from Determination along with the over 100% increased armor the new memory vault has combined with all the other boosts to armor means I think mana guardians will have even more armor than they used to PLUS its twice as effective. OP as hell. Oh, and those new juicy +max ele resist nodes, more spell block nodes, new keystone Divine Shield, etc.

I think CI Mana Guardians will be THE OP spec next league.
Super high armor (which is twice as effective as before)
High ES
ES returned on phys dam mitigation!

My wrists are in too much pain to play, but if I could, I would start next league with a minion guardian build, transitioning to CI mana guardian when I had the currency.

If Inquisitors Life Regen = ES Regen and Corrupted Soul survives unscatched it will be hella strong too.

es recharge is already really strong. wicked ward with evasion is crazy strong.

what are ci builds who invest in this stuff getting right now? 7k recharge per sec? 8k? more?


if you dont get hit for a second you get uninterruptable regen of that sort of amount for 4 seconds?


ask yourself how good vaal discipline is for surviving with es.